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  “Anderson’s fame will be nothing” Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 255.

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  “Assuming it to be possible” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:284–85.

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  “the probabilities are in favor” Ibid.; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 336–37; McPherson, Battle Cry, 268.

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  “the connivance of the late administration” Blair to Lincoln, March 15, 1861, WOTR, 53:62–63; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 336–37; Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:284–85; McPherson, Battle Cry, 268.

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  “If it were possible” Seward, Seward at Washington, 529; Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:284–85.

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  “utterly ruinous” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:382; McPherson, Battle Cry, 268; Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:424.

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  “The President requires” Cameron to Scott, March 19, 1861, WOTR, 1:208.

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  Montgomery: Of Spiders and Entrails

  “In full conclave tonight” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 21.

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  “Mr. Chesnut making such a stamping” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 31.

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  “expatiated on the folly” Ibid., 32.

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  “Mr. C, thinking himself” Ibid.

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  “I think this journal” Ibid.; Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 23; Muhlenfeld, Mary Boykin Chesnut, 98, 236.

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  Fort Sumter: Practice Makes Perfect

  A typical gunnery crew My description of the firing process is based primarily on Artillery Through the Ages.

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  U.S. Navy records, for example U.S. Navy, “Casualties: US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Injured in Selected Accidents and Other Incidents Not Directly the Result of Enemy Action”; “ ‘My Shirt Took Fire.’ ” An initial Navy report dated the day of the incident put the total of Ticonderoga deaths at five, with eight wounded, but “Casualties,” compiled a century and a half later, presents what is presumably the definitive number: eight.

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  “calculated to kill” “My Shirt Took Fire.”

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  “The practice was excellent” Foster to Joseph G. Totten, February 26, 1861, WOTR, 1:187.

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  “I have no ammunition to spare” Anderson to Lorenzo Thomas, March 23, 1861, WOTR, 1:212.

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  “was undoubtedly called for” Anderson to Pickens, March 13, 1861, WOTR, 1:219.

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  “the unquestionable privilege” Jamison to Anderson, March 15, 1861, WOTR, 1:220.

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  “the professed owner” Anderson to Jamison, March 17, 1861, WOTR, 1:220.

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  Washington: The Commissioners

  “I wish I could do it” Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 457.

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  “I had not before this” Ibid.

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  “I feel perfect confidence” Ibid., 458–59.

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  “adverse to recognition ” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:408; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 459. The entire saga of Seward, Campbell, and the commissioners is neatly laid out, document by document, in Davis, Messages and Papers, 84–98.

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  New York: Russell, of the Times

  “Abnormal,” he wrote Russell, My Diary, 34.

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  “the piles of blackened snow” Ibid.

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  “The thing itself” Dickens, American Notes, 113.

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  “The tumult, the miscellaneous nature” Russell, My Diary, 41.

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  “To me it is evident” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 227; Russell, My Diary, 12.

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  “The Herald keeps up the courage” Russell, My Diary, 64.

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  “Everywhere the Southern leaders” Ibid., 36.

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  “Be sure you examine the slave-pens” Ibid.

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  “over the roughest” Ibid., 38.

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  “the rustle of pens” Ibid., 40.

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  “All through this conversation” Ibid., 42.

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  “Never,” he wrote, “did a people enter a war” Ibid., 210.

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  Washington: Trust

  “two degrees below” Adams, Diaries, March 18 and 19, 1861.

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  “We can’t hear” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:409; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 459.

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  “You have not heard” Martin Crawford et al. to Toombs, March 20, 1861, WOTR, 1:277.

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  “Has Sumter been evacuated?” Martin Crawford et al. to Beauregard, March 20, 1861, WOTR, 1:277.

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  “Sumter not evacuated” Beauregard to Crawford et al., March 21, 1861, WOTR, 53:136; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 460.

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  “no delay that has occurred” Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 460.

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  “will not deceive you” Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 333.

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  As he looked out Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:389.

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  “that the 15th of April” Ibid.; Detzer, Allegiance, 229.

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  “Were you with Captain Fox” Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 372; Swanberg, First Blood, 248–49.

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  “I have examined the point” Anderson to Thomas, March 22, 1861, WOTR, 1:211; Detzer, Allegiance, 228; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:389.

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  “I did intend” Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 345n9.

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  Charleston: Some Good Thing in the Wind

  he had also been run Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 136.

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  “From these sources” Hurlbut to Lincoln, March 27, 1861, Lincoln Papers; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:391.

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  Pickens gave Lamon Samuel Wylie Crawford, “Journal of Samuel Wylie Crawford,” March 25, 1861, Crawford Papers; Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 137; John G. Foster to Joseph G. Totten, March 26, 1861, WOTR, 1:221.

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  “our countries” Beauregard to Anderson, March 26, 1861, WOTR, 1:222.

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  “All that will be required” Ibid.

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  “I am much obliged” Anderson to Beauregard, March 26, 1861, WOTR, 1:222.

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  “of wounding, in any manner” Beauregard to Anderson, March 26, 1861, 1:223.

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  “I have heard of your declaration” Scott to Anderson, March 29, 1861, Anderson Papers.

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  “I confess” Anderson to Scott, April 1, 1861, Anderson Papers.

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  “The mouth is absolutely prodigious” Russell, My Diary, 44–45.

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  “Mr. Russell, I am very glad” Ibid., 47.

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  “with a pleasant twinkle” Ibid., 47–48.

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  Shortly before the dinner began Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 365–66; McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision, 229–30.

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  Fort Sumter: Firewood

  “The sixth and last” Foster to Joseph G. Totten, March 26, 1861, WOTR, 1:221.

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  “It would be well” Seymour to Anderson, February 27, 1861, Anderson Papers.

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  “Had I not a family” R. C. Anderson [nephew] to Robert Anderson, January 12 and February 20, 1861, Anderson Papers.

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  “I believe that” R. C. Anderson [nephew] to Robert Anderson, January 25, 1861, Anderson Papers.

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  Charleston: The Handsomest Man

  “Came down on the cars” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 35; Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 47.

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  “He is always the handsomest” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 35; Paul Christopher Anderson, “John Laurence Manning,” South Carolina Encyclopedia, www.scencyclopedia.org/​sce/​entries/​manning-john-laurence/.

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  “Your conversation reminds me” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 36.

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  “I looked at him in amazement” Ibid., 37

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  “Mr. M,” she noted Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 49.

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  “there to see the VanderHorst way” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 37.

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  “After dinner, Mr. Chesnut” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 50.

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  Washington: Change of Heart

  “An abandonment of the fort” Scott, memorandum, (n.d.), enclosed with Simon Cameron to Lincoln, March 15, 1861, WOTR, 1:200; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:394; Detzer, Allegiance, 153.

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  “a cold shock” Meigs quoting Lincoln, “Gen. M. C. Meigs,” 300.

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  “a babel of small talk” Russell, My Diary, 48–49, 55.

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  “Mr. Lincoln raises a laugh” Ibid., 50.

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  “I dined with the Presdt.” Crawford, “William Howard Russell,” 194.

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  “A long pause of blank amazement” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:395; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 339; Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 365.

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  “That night” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:395; Meigs, “Gen. M. C. Meigs,” 300; Klein, Days of Defiance, 354.

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  “As to Fort Sumter” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:432; Brauer, “Seward’s ‘Foreign War Panacea,’ ” 149–53.

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  “South Carolina is the head” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:432.

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  Lincoln inadvertently Donald, Lincoln, 290–92. Here you’ll find a good summary of the Powhatan fiasco.

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  Part VI: Collision

  Charleston: The Flirtation

  “Mr. C gave me his cheek” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 51; Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 39.

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  “Now, a loud banging” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 39.

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  “He is the hero” Ibid.

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  The next day, Sunday, March 31 Ibid., 209; Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 52.

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  Seward found himself Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 341.

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  He promised to respond Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 464.

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  Washington: Seward’s Play

  “The President,” he wrote Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 404; Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 337.

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  “What does this mean?” Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 465; Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 337, 338; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:410.

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  “My opinion is” Martin Crawford to Beauregard, April 1, 1861, enclosed with Beauregard to Walker, April 1, 1861, WOTR, 1:283–84; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 466.

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  “Batteries here ready” Beauregard to Walker, April 1, 1861, 1:283–84.

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  “no conception of his situation” Sowle, “Reappraisal of Seward’s Memorandum,” 239; Nevins, War for the Union, 72; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 341.

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  “Some thoughts” Sowle, “Reappraisal of Seward’s Memorandum,” 235; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 341–42; Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:317.

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  so certain, in fact, that he had arranged Sowle, “Reappraisal of Seward’s Memorandum,” 235–36.

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  “It is a little difficult” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:447.

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  “had Mr. Lincoln been an envious” Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 342.

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  “I remark” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:317; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 343; McPherson, Battle Cry, 271; Nevins, War for the Union, 63; Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 353; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:447; Seward, Seward at Washington, 535.

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  “So far as is known” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:449.

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  “Dangers and breakers” Seward, Seward at Washington, 534.

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  “I do not doubt that Sumter” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:411.

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  “So far as I can judge” Ibid.; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 466.

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